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March 8, 2020,
Does forbidden love actually exist anymore in the world of online dating, a world with less strict borders and the lessening of familial constraints?
The answer is YES in capital letters.
It still appears to, but the reasons for its fences appear to be shifting.
In times past some of the strong barriers to love were culture and class. Today it appears to be less about culture but social and financial class still plays an important factor.
Sometimes the romance waters get a little muddy.
On January 20, 2020, CNN reported, “Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will give up their royal titles and eschew some state funding in a deal brokered to end a crisis that broke out after the couple announced they would step back from the royal family. Earlier this month, in a carefully worded Instagram post and curated new website, Harry and Meghan announced their intention to exit the royal family.”
Was their exit due to culture or economic gain? The answer depends upon which media outlet that you read or even believe. Perhaps those on the inside will only know the truth.
The couple’s behavior raised eyebrows when they recently attended a Miami event. As posted by pagesix.com, “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — usually outspoken on environmental issues — are taking heat for attending a ritzy summit hosted by JP Morgan, which has been accused of pumping billions into fossil fuel firms, according to a new report.
The investment giant is believed to have paid the Sussexes up to 775,000 British pounds — more than $1 million — to attend its exclusive Alternative Investment Summit in Miami last week, their first engagement since leaving the royal family, the Sun reported.”
Environment verses money. What is a Royal to do? What should they pick?
The summit seemed to provide that answer.
Money does seem to talk and now in a world where women’s incomes are greatly rising, can they fall in love with a man whose income is far less?
Approximately 38% of wives earn more than their husbands, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Societies around the world have placed a far greater value on men as bread winners since the time era of hunters and gathers.
Roughly 75% of respondents in the Pew survey said that having more women in the workplace has made it more difficult for parents to raise children.
As shared by the New York Post, “In the study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Cornell sociologists explored America’s declining marriage rate. They discovered a lack of financially eligible bachelors.
“There are shortages of economically attractive men,” lead study author Daniel T. Lichter tells The Post. Although we like to think marriage is based on love, he says, it “also is fundamentally an economic transaction,” and women want partners whom they can call their equals.”
The thinking is that men are looking for healthy, fertile women who will bear high-quality offspring for them. Since fertility for women rises in the late teens and peaks in the mid-twenties, men prefer mates in that age range.
Women on the other hand tend to look for males who are their financial equals and preferably one who has a greater income than they do.
The declining numbers of Americans who are getting married is beginning to make national news.
As shared by uvamagazine.org of Virginia, “Only about half of Americans are married now, down from 72 percent in 1960, according to census data. The age at which one first gets married has risen by six years since 1960, and now only 20 percent of Americans get married before the age of 30. The number of new marriages each year is declining at a slow but steady rate. Put simply, if you are an unmarried adult today, you face a lower chance of ever getting married, a longer wait and higher divorce rates if you do get married. The Pew Research Center recently found that about 40 percent of unmarried adults believe that marriage is becoming obsolete.”
That is fairly bleak news and it seems to echo what other publications are expressing.
As more young women earned college degrees, entered the workforce and delayed motherhood, marriage became less necessary for their economic survival.
In what was probably the most influential article that our associates at FCI Women’s Wrestling wrote back on July 1, 2013, it speaks to the massive shift in college education where the girls are far out numbering the boys in obtaining college degrees.
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At fciwomenswrestling.com they posted, “The New York Times reported women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University, and Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon, and large public universities in states like California, Florida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female.
There are more men than women ages 18-24 in the USA, 15 million vs. 14.2 million, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year. But nationally, the male/female ratio on campus today is 43/57, a reversal from the late 1960s and well beyond the nearly even splits of the mid-1970s.”
Initially Female Competition International (FCI) published towards an exclusively male audience. After researching that information their marketing strategy forever changed.
The ramifications about declining marriage and child birth rates are huge especially in times of great global conflict over immigration.
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank (referring to itself as a “fact tank”) based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
It also conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research. The Pew Research Center does not take policy positions, and is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
The team at pewresearch.org adds, “Among adults who have never been married but say they are open to marrying in the future, about six-in-ten (59%) say that a major reason they are not married is that they haven’t found the right person.
Marriage rates are also more closely linked to socio-economic status than ever before, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data that shows that the education gap in marital status has continued to widen.”
The right person is often a euphemism for the right person who makes a great living.
When it comes to romance, dating sites tend to be more direct.
The global news and business source Forbes Magazine educated, “Men who say they earn more than $150,000 have the greatest chance of hearing from a woman.”
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Opening photo pexels.com fciwomenswrestling.com femcompetitor.com, fcielitecompetitor.com, fciwomenswrestling.com pexels.com-Andrea-Piacquadio-photo-credit.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/19/uk/harry-meghan-royal-explainer-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/women-are-struggling-to-find-men-who-make-as-much-money-as-they-do/
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/marriage-mismatch-husbands-wives-earnings-education-jobs.html
https://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_marriage_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Research_Center
